“Suffering just means you’re having a bad dream. Happiness means you’re having a good dream. Enlightenment means getting out of the dream altogether.”
– Jed McKenna
As long as we imagine ourselves to be separate personalities, one quite apart from other, we cannot grasp reality which is essentially impersonal. First we must know ourselves as witnesses only, dimensionless and timeless centers of observation, and then realize the immense ocean of pure awareness, which is both mind and matter and beyond.
– Nisargadatta Maharaj ( I AM That.. Chapter 45)
Reality is without attributes: it is not colour, it is not music, it is not yellow or black, etc. The ghee [purified butter] which is liquid and the ghee which is solid are the same just as water and ice is the same. When a seed [form of earth] meets earth, there is a rise of consciousness. All that you see and perceive is nothing but the Reality. What you see is only the qualified consciousness just as you see that bangles or armlets are both made out of gold.
– Siddharameshwar Maharaj
“Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage”
― Ramana Maharshi
“Love, the Supreme Musician is always playing in our Soul” – Rumi
Once you know with absolute certainty that nothing can trouble you but your own imagination,
you come to disregard your desires and fears, concepts and ideas, and live by Truth alone. – Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Here’s the most directly I am able to say this: The one and only truth of any person lies like a black hole at their very core, and everything else—everything else—is just the rubbish and debris that covers the hole. Of course, to someone who is just going about their normal human existence undistracted by the larger questions, that rubbish and debris is everything that makes them who they are. But to someone who wants to get to the truth, who they are is what’s in the way.”
― Jed McKenna, Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing